• Welcome to PROSPERO
    International prospective register of systematic reviews
  • Welcome to PROSPERO
    International prospective register of systematic reviews
  • Welcome to PROSPERO
    International prospective register of systematic reviews
  • Welcome to PROSPERO
    International prospective register of systematic reviews

PROSPERO is fast-tracking registration of protocols related to COVID-19

PROSPERO accepts registrations for systematic reviews, rapid reviews and umbrella reviews. PROSPERO does not accept scoping reviews or literature scans. Sibling PROSPERO sites registers systematic reviews of human studies and systematic reviews of animal studies.

Before registering a new systematic review, check PROSPERO and the resources on COVID-END to see whether a similar review already exists. If so, please do not duplicate without good reason. Your efforts may be much more useful if switched to a different topic. This will avoid research waste and contribute more effectively to tackling the pandemic.

Shortcut for already registered reviews of human and animal studies relevant to Covid-19, tagged by research area

We receive many emails enquiring about progress. As answering these takes time away from processing registrations, please email only if absolutely necessary. We are working hard to process registration requests as quickly as possible. If your enquiry is related to a COVID-19 registration please add #COVID-19 to your subject line.

If you do not already have a PROSPERO account, you will need to create one to register a review

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Registering a review is quick and easy. Just follow these simple steps to register your review in PROSPERO

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Search for PROSPERO registrations by entering words in the record or the registration number below

Important notice

To allow the PROSPERO team to focus on COVID-19 and to avoid further delay, during the pandemic all submissions that have been waiting for registration for more than 30 days and which pass a basic automated check will be published automatically. The PROSPERO team will not check these submissions; this will be stated clearly on the published record. Records will be published exactly as submitted; therefore extra care should be taken to ensure that submitted information is accurate. Submissions which do not pass the basic automated check will be automatically rejected.

Due to technical issues, you will not receive an email notification if your record is automatically published. Please check your account after 10 days to confirm registration.

For records that are within 10 days of submission, registrations from the UK will continue to be prioritised because PROSPERO is funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).

We are receiving a large volume of emails enquiring about progress. As answering these takes time away from processing records, please only email should if it is absolutely necessary. If your enquiry is related to a review on COVID-19 registration please add #COVID-19 to your subject line. For other reviews please allow at least 14 days from submission before enquiring about progress.

Students: We do not (have the resources to) register reviews done as part of training courses, modules or other 'mini' reviews. Feel free to use the system in your learning and to help you develop a full protocol, but do not press the button.

Integrity of data and prospective registration

When to register your review

Do not register too early. Your systematic review protocol should be complete before you submit your registration request.

Registering reviews that are never performed is unhelpful to the research community and may discredit the research team.
You should therefore have the necessary resource in place to complete the review before you register your protocol (notification of award of research funding or firm commitment that author time is available for unfunded projects).

PROSPERO relies on the integrity of researchers for the accuracy of the data supplied, and the named contacts are accountable for the content of their records. We routinely monitor the time frame given in submissions and seek clarification where this appears overly ambitious prior to confirming registration and providing a PROSPERO registration number. Amendments and updates to the record are made transparent in the audit trail within each record.

On rare occasions, peer reviewers and editors using PROSPERO to compare what was planned with what is reported in the final manuscript, have identified that the initial registration date in PROSPERO post-dates the manuscript submission date to the journal. In these cases the logical explanation is that the stage of review was inaccurately completed in the PROSPERO registration form; otherwise the submission would have been rejected. In such cases, the named contact will be alerted to the issue and given the opportunity to respond within two weeks. If it is confirmed that incorrect information was provided, or no response is received, the content of the PROSPERO record will be removed, leaving the title and the details of the named contact and the following statement:

Since publication of this record it has been established that information provided initially about the stage of the review and anticipated completion date was inaccurate. The review had actually progressed beyond the stage of eligibility for PROSPERO.

Prospective registration aims to facilitate the comparison of reported review findings with what was planned a priori in the protocol. Reviews should ideally be registered before screening against eligibility criteria commences. However, reviews are currently accepted provided they have not progressed beyond the completion of data extraction.

Protocol details for this review should be sought from the named contact.

Please tell us why this record has been updated.

Please provide a brief description of any major changes made to your record e.g. to inclusion criteria or outcomes and why these have been made. This is important information for those reading your record. It helps safeguard against readers assuming that changes have been done to manipulate results and supports the credibility of your review.

PLEASE NOTE: the text you enter here will appear in the published review under the Revision Notes section

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Registering a review on PROSPERO

PROSPERO is an international database of prospectively registered systematic reviews in health and social care. Key features from the review protocol are recorded and maintained as a permanent record in PROSPERO. The aim is to provide a comprehensive listing of systematic reviews registered at inception, to help avoid unplanned duplication. By promoting transparency in the process and enabling comparison of reported review findings with what was planned in the protocol PROSPERO also aims to minimise the risk of bias in systematic review.

PROSPERO has been developed and is managed by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) at the University of York and is funded by the UK’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).

What does registration on PROSPERO involve?

Registration in PROSPERO involves the prospective submission and publication of key information about the design and conduct of a systematic review.

Registration on PROSPERO is free of charge. In return, registrants are accountable for the accuracy and updating of information submitted.

Inclusion criteria

PROSPERO includes details of any planned or on-going systematic review that has a health related outcome.

PROSPERO accepts:

Systematic review protocols assessing:

Further information on protocol development specific to review types is accessible below.

Requirements for registration

  • A full protocol should be ready before registering with PROSPERO
  • Submissions must be made before data extraction commences (from October 2019)
  • Registration forms must be complete.
  • Submissions must be in English (search strategies and protocols attached to a record may be in any language).

PROSPERO does not accept:

  • Systematic reviews without an outcome of clear relevance to the health of humans
  • Scoping reviews
  • Literature reviews that use a systematic search
  • Systematic reviews assessing sports performance as an outcome
  • Methodological reviews that assess ONLY the quality of reporting
  • Systematic critical appraisals

Other considerations

  • Cochrane protocols are automatically uploaded- To avoid duplication of records, Cochrane protocols should not be registered separately with PROSPERO.
  • Systematic reviews of animal studies only are not eligible for registration in the section of PROSPERO dedicated to reviews of human studies. These should be registered in the section of PROSPERO for animal studies.
  • Systematic reviews of in-vitro studies only are not eligible for registration on PROSPERO. We recommend registering such protocols elsewhere, for instance on Open Science Framework.

If you are in any doubt about the eligibility of your review, including the stage of progress please contact us by email using the details on the contact page for advice.

When to register your review

Do not register too early. Your systematic review protocol should be complete before you submit your registration request  

Registering reviews that are never performed is unhelpful to the research community and may discredit the research team.
You should therefore have the necessary resource in place to complete the review before you register your protocol (notification of award of research funding or firm commitment that author time is available for unfunded projects).

Accessing and navigating the registration form

Obtain a username and password by following the ‘Join’ link in the top right hand corner of the PROSPERO website.

Once you have joined, you can ‘Sign in’ and then you will be able to select ‘Register a review’ in the left hand column. This opens a page that encourages you to check that your review will meet the inclusion criteria and that the review is not already registered, if you are happy to continue, click on Open the registration form. The Open the registration form option opens a page where you are asked to confirm your review is eligible for inclusion and sufficiently different from any other review registered. If you are happy to confirm the information you may proceed to the registration form by clicking on the Register a review box. This will take you to the electronic registration form which has 22 required fields and 18 optional fields. ‘Required’ fields, marked with a red asterisk, must be completed before the Submit button can be accessed. You may save and exit the form at any time, and return at a later date changes are also automatically saved when a field is exited. You are able to add or edit information at a later time by signing in at the main page and going to ‘My PROSPERO records’.

Providing access to a protocol is not a substitute for entering data into the required fields.

Most registrants complete the form in 60 minutes or less.

Brief guidance about the information required in each field is given in the form by clicking the icon or by clicking ‘show help’ at the top of the page and more detailed information, with examples, is given below for each section..
When you are ready, the form can be sent to the PROSPERO administrators by clicking on Submit.

What happens after submitting a form

Access to your record to make further changes or updates is suspended during the administrative process. Receipt of submission is acknowledged in an automated email sent to the named contact.

Registration forms are checked against the eligibility criteria for PROSPERO and if they meet the inclusion criteria are checked for clarity of content before being approved and published on the register, returned for clarification or rejected. We endeavor to provide an update within five working days. However if you wish to enquire on the progress of your submission please contact the administration team by email using the details on the contact page.

Once published on the register, the record will again become accessible for future editing. However the original document submitted will remain in the register to provide a permanent record for the audit trail and for reference. The form can also be saved as a pdf or word processing document if you want to share with others working on the review before submitting.

Should your submission be rejected for registration the record will then be locked and no further edits can be made. Further access to the record for editing is not then possible without contacting us by email using the details on the contact page.

Making changes, amendments and updating a published record

Changes, amendments and updates can be made to a published record by signing in, going to My PROSPERO records and opening the saved record. Once the changes have been made you must click the Submit button. You will then be asked to give brief details of the changes made. The information entered here will appear in the public record and should inform users of the database of the nature of the changes made (e.g. removed one of the outcome measures; changed the anticipated completion date).

Full guidance notes are available here.

All submitted edits and changes to a PROSPERO record will be recorded, dated, and made available within the public record audit trail. The most recent version will appear with previous versions accessible from dated links on the right-hand side of the screen, with the revision notes.

What to do after completing a review and after publishing the findings

Records remain permanently on PROSPERO. Once the review is completed this information should be updated in the record together with the anticipated publication date. The bibliographic reference and electronic links to publications should be added to the record by the authors. In the absence of a publication, details of availability of the review’s unpublished results, or reasons for the discontinuation of the review, should be documented. Reminder emails with detailed instructions on what to do, are sent on the anticipated completion and publication dates.

Registering an update of a completed review

If you decide to update the registration of a review you have already completed, you can access the record by signing in and going to My PROSPERO records. You can make changes to the protocol and submit it as an update and it will be processed as for a new review. It is important to decide if you are updating a review, or in fact because of changes to the protocol, are doing a new review. The following definitions have been provided to help you decide.

What is an update of a review?

Updating a systematic review is a discrete event during which efforts are made to identify and incorporate new evidence into a previously completed systematic review
An ‘update’ may be any modified version of a review that includes the findings of a more recent search than the previously completed version of the review. It can still be considered an update even if the new search reveals no additional studies. Any newly identified studies should be assessed and, if appropriate, incorporated into the updated review. An update might also be an opportunity to conduct new analyses or add additional information to the review.

What constitutes a new review rather than an update?

It can be difficult to decide whether an update to a review is in fact a new review. There is little published guidance on this. PROSPERO adopts a pragmatic approach. If changes to the review questions or methods are so substantial that they require major changes to the original protocol, this should be regarded as a new review rather than an update. Examples that would constitute a new review:

  • addition of new treatment comparisons e.g. direct comparison of different drugs, when the old review included only comparisons of drug with placebo;
  • substantial changes to the population being studied e.g. adding adults to a review that was previously restricted to children;
  • exclusion criteria in the old review become inclusion criteria in the new review;
  • introduction of new analysis techniques e.g. a switch from aggregate data meta-analyses to individual participant meta-analyses.

If in doubt, a new record for a new review should be created. This will minimise the complexity of the editing to the original record in PROSPERO and make it easier for users to distinguish between the original review and the later version. Links between the new and original review can be added in field #37 in the registration form.

Guide to completing the registration fields

The following guidance notes follow the format of the registration form. The guidance includes a description and example of what is required for each of the fields within each section.

SPECIAL NOTES:
We accept information in good faith and rely upon the integrity of researchers to ensure the validity of all the data presented in PROSPERO records. Action will be taken if inaccuracies in data, particularly stage of review and anticipated completion date, are identified at any time.

PROSPERO records need to be fully searchable so the information requested needs to be in the fields, even if access to a protocol is given in Field 34. The records are permanent but links are not. We therefore do not accept submissions that refer the reader to the protocol without providing the basic information in the fields.

Registering a review of animal studies on PROSPERO

PROSPERO for animal studies is an international database of prospectively registered systematic reviews of animal studies relevant to human health. Key features from the review protocol are recorded and maintained as a permanent record in PROSPERO. The aim is to provide a comprehensive listing of systematic reviews registered at inception, to help avoid unplanned duplication. By promoting transparency in the process and enabling comparison of reported review findings with what was planned in the protocol PROSPERO also aims to minimise the risk of bias in systematic review.

PROSPERO for animal studies has been developed and is managed by the SYRCLE-CAMARADES team and the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) at the University of York. It is  funded by the UK’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).

What does registration on PROSPERO involve?

Registration in PROSPERO involves the prospective submission and publication of key information about the design and conduct of a systematic review.

Registration on PROSPERO is free of charge. In return, registrants are accountable for the accuracy and updating of information submitted.

Inclusion criteria

PROSPERO includes details of any planned or on-going systematic review that has a health related outcome.

PROSPERO accepts:

Systematic review protocols assessing:

Further information on protocol development specific to review types is accessible below.

Requirements for registration

  • A full protocol should be ready before registering with PROSPERO
  • Submissions must be made before data extraction commences (from October 2019)
  • Registration forms must be complete.
  • Submissions must be in English (search strategies and protocols attached to a record may be in any language).

PROSPERO does not accept:

  • Systematic reviews without an outcome of clear relevance to the health of humans
  • Scoping reviews
  • Literature reviews that use a systematic search
  • Systematic reviews assessing sports performance as an outcome
  • Methodological reviews that assess ONLY the quality of reporting
  • Systematic critical appraisals

Other considerations

  • Cochrane protocols are automatically uploaded- To avoid duplication of records, Cochrane protocols should not be registered separately with PROSPERO.
  • Systematic reviews of human studies only are not eligible for registration in the section of PROSPERO dedicated to reviews of animal studies. These should be registered in the section of PROSPERO for human studies.
  • Systematic reviews of in-vitro studies only are not eligible for registration on PROSPERO. We recommend registering such protocols elsewhere, for instance on Open Science Framework.

If you are in any doubt about the eligibility of your review, including the stage of progress please contact us by email using the details on the contact page for advice.

When to register your review

Do not register too early. Your systematic review protocol should be complete before you submit your registration request  

Registering reviews that are never performed is unhelpful to the research community and may discredit the research team.
You should therefore have the necessary resources in place to complete the review before you register your protocol (notification of award of research funding or firm commitment that author time is available for unfunded projects).

Accessing and navigating the registration form

Obtain a username and password by following the ‘Join’ link in the top right hand corner of the PROSPERO website.

Once you have joined, you can ‘Sign in’ and then you will be able to select ‘Register a review’ in the left hand column. This opens a page that encourages you to check that your review will meet the inclusion criteria and that the review is not already registered. If you are happy to continue, open the registration form by clicking on the "Register a systematic review of animal research studies (study subjects are animals) that is of direct relevance to human health" link. This opens a page where you are asked to confirm your review is eligible for inclusion and sufficiently different from any other review registered. If you are happy to confirm the information you may proceed to the registration form by clicking on the "Register a review" link. This will take you to the electronic registration form which has 26 required fields and 14 optional fields. All subfields of required fields, marked with a red asterisk, must be completed before the protocol can be submitted. You may save and exit the form at any time, and return at a later date changes are also automatically saved when a field is exited. You are able to add or edit information at a later time by signing in at the main page and going to ‘My PROSPERO records’.

Providing access to a protocol is not a substitute for entering data into the required fields.

Most registrants complete the form in 60 minutes or less.

Brief guidance about the information required in each field is given in the form by clicking the icon or by clicking ‘show help’ at the top of the page and more detailed information, with examples, is given below for each section..
When you are ready, the form can be sent to the PROSPERO administrators by clicking on "Submit".

What happens after submitting a form

Access to your record to make further changes or updates is suspended during the administrative process. Receipt of submission is acknowledged in an automated email sent to the named contact.

Registration forms are checked against the eligibility criteria for PROSPERO. If they meet the inclusion criteria, they are checked for clarity of content before either being approved and published on the register, returned for clarification, or rejected. We endeavour to provide an update within five working days. If you wish to enquire on the progress of your submission please contact the administration team by email using the details on the contact page.

Once published on the register, the record will again become accessible for future editing. However, the original document submitted will remain in the register to provide a permanent record for the audit trail and for reference.

Should your submission be rejected for registration, the record will be locked and no further edits can be made. Further access to the record for editing is not possible without contacting us by email using the details on the contact page.

Please do not create a new record to substitute a rejected record without contacting us.

Making changes, amendments and updating a published record

Changes, amendments and updates can be made to a published record by signing in, going to “My PROSPERO records” and opening the saved record. Once the changes have been made,  click the “Submit” button. You will then be asked to give brief details of the changes made. The information entered here will appear in the public record and should inform users of the database of the nature of the changes made (e.g. removed one of the outcome measures; changed the anticipated completion date).

Full guidance notes are available here.

All submitted edits and changes to a PROSPERO record will be recorded, dated, and made available within the public record audit trail. The most recent version will appear with previous versions accessible from dated links on the right-hand side of the screen, with the revision notes.

What to do after completing a review and after publishing the findings

Records remain permanently on PROSPERO. Once the review is completed this information should be updated in the record together with the anticipated publication date. The bibliographic reference and electronic links to publications should be added to the record by the authors. In the absence of a publication, details of availability of the review’s unpublished results, or reasons for the discontinuation of the review, should be documented. Reminder emails with detailed instructions on what to do, are sent on the anticipated completion and publication dates.

Registering an update of a completed review

If you decide to update the registration of a review you have already completed, you can access the record by signing in and going to “My PROSPERO records”. You can make changes to the protocol and submit it as an update and it will be processed as for a new review. It is important to decide if you are updating a review, or in fact are doing a new review because of changes to the protocol. The following definitions have been provided to help you decide.

What is an update of a review?

Updating a systematic review is a discrete event during which efforts are made to identify and incorporate new evidence into a previously completed systematic review
An ‘update’ may be any modified version of a review that includes the findings of a more recent search than the previously completed version of the review. It can still be considered an update even if the new search reveals no additional studies. Any newly identified studies should be assessed and, if appropriate, incorporated into the updated review. An update might also be an opportunity to conduct new analyses or add additional information to the review.

What constitutes a new review rather than an update?

It can be difficult to decide whether an update to a review is in fact a new review. There is little published guidance on this. PROSPERO adopts a pragmatic approach. If changes to the review questions or methods are so substantial that they require major changes to the original protocol, this should be regarded as a new review rather than an update. Examples that would constitute a new review:

  • addition of new treatment comparisons e.g. direct comparison of different drugs, when the old review included only comparisons of drug with placebo;
  • substantial changes to the population being studied e.g. adding non-rodents to a review that was previously restricted to rodents;
  • exclusion criteria in the old review become inclusion criteria in the new review;
  • introduction of new analysis techniques e.g. a switch from aggregate data meta-analyses to individual participant meta-analyses.

If in doubt, a new record for a new review should be created. This will minimise the complexity of the editing to the original record in PROSPERO and make it easier for users to distinguish between the original review and the later version. Links between the new and original review can be added in field #37 in the registration form.

Guide to completing the registration fields

The following guidance notes follow the format of the registration form. The guidance includes a description and example of what is required for each of the fields within each section.

PROSPERO records need to be fully searchable. We can therefore not accept submissions in which only a link to a protocol registered elsewhere is provided, without providing the basic information in the fields.

SPECIAL NOTES:
We accept information in good faith and rely upon the integrity of researchers to ensure the validity of all the data presented in PROSPERO records. Action will be taken if inaccuracies in data, particularly stage of review and anticipated completion date, are identified at any time.

Start typing in the box below to search for indiviual words or phrases. This is a simple search which looks only in the Titles of reviews and the review ID number. You can perfom a more refined search by using the filtered search page

These screening questions check whether your review is eligible for inclusion in PROSPERO and avoid wasting your time if it is not eligible.

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Is this a scoping, literature or mapping review?

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Please check PROSPERO for similar systematic reviews before proceeding

Checking whether a similar review already exists should be one of the first steps taken in a systematic review.

Knowingly repeating an existing systematic review is not necessarily wrong, but to avoid research waste there should be a reason for doing this - for example if the new review will incorporate additional studies, use new or alternative methods of analysis, or have a different focus.

PROSPERO does not prevent registration of similar reviews. However, registrations are dated in PROSPERO and a journal could decide not to publish a review that has repeated an already registered review without justification.

If you find a similar review in PROSPERO, but are unsure if it is the same or if it will be completed and published, we suggest that you contact the author to find out before proceeding. Contact details can be found within the PROSPERO record.

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The inclusion criteria for registration are explained in the guidance. If after reading the guidance you are unsure if your review is within scope please contact the help desk by email using the details on the contact page to inquire.

We look forward to receiving future submissions from you.

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Registering a review is easy. Please read the guidance notes for registering a systematic review of human studies or a systematic review of animal studies relevant to human health, then just follow the five step process below.
Step 1
Check the inclusion criteria to make sure that your review is eligible for inclusion in PROSPERO
Step 2
Ensure that your review protocol is in its (near) final form and that no major changes are anticipated at this stage - e.g. if your protocol will be peer reviewed it will usually be sensible to wait until this is complete before registering.
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Search PROSPERO to ensure that your review has not already been registered by another member of your team
Step 4
Search PROSPERO to ensure that you are not unnecessarily duplicating a review that is being done by another team or has been registered previously
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Start registering your review

Fields that have an asterisk (*) next to them means that they must be answered. Word limits are provided for each section. You will be unable to submit the form if the word limits are exceeded for any section. Registrant means the person filling out the form.

Please complete all mandatory fields below (marked with an asterisk *) and as many of the non-mandatory fields as you can then click Submit to submit your registration. You don't need to complete everything in one go, this record will appear in your My PROSPERO section of the web site and you can continue to edit it until you are ready to submit. Click Show help below or click on the icon to see guidance on completing each section.
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PROSPERO is currently prioritising registration of COVID-19 protocols and continues to receive a vast and increasing number of registrations. To allow the PROSPERO team to focus on COVID-19 and to avoid further delay, during the pandemic all submissions that have been waiting for registration for more than 30 days and which pass a basic automated check will be published automatically. The PROSPERO team will not check these submissions; this will be stated clearly on the published record. Records will be published exactly as submitted; therefore extra care should be taken to ensure that submitted information is accurate. Submissions which do not pass the basic automated check will be automatically rejected.

Due to technical issues, you will not receive an email notification if your record is automatically published. Please check your account after 30 days to confirm registration

For records that are within 30 days of submission, registrations from the UK will continue to be prioritised because PROSPERO is funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR).

We are receiving a huge volume of emails enquiring about progress. Answering these takes time away from processing records, so we ask that you only email should it be absolutely necessary. If your enquiry is related to a review on COVID-19 registration please add #COVID-19 to your subject line.  For other reviews please allow at least 34 days from submission before enquiring about progress. We thank you for your understanding in advance.

Previous changes
With effect From 1st October 2019, PROSPERO only accepts reviews provided that data extraction has not yet started.
This is intended to reduce potential for bias by reducing the opportunity for (conscious or subconscious) selection or manipulation of data during extraction to shape a review so that it reaches a desired conclusion. PROSPERO will continue to accept registrations if formal screening of search results against the review’s eligibility criteria is complete, because we understand that the steps of a review up to that point do not always follow a strictly sequential manner. We also recognise that registration before then may be challenging for reviews being done to a short timeline or strict deadline. Records are now date stamped to show initial submission date and date of receipt of revised records (for those returned to authors for amendment), as well as registration date.

Authors should have written a full protocol before they register and provide full and specific details on their methods in the PROSPERO registration record. Generic ‘cut and paste’ statements should not be used.

STUDENTS doing mini-reviews or other training exercises should NOT register

PROSPERO has limited resource and is unable to process student work done as part of their training these (handling them takes time away from full projects intended for publication). Students may use the system to create and store a record by saving but please do not submit. Substantial reviews done for dissertations or theses may be registered but will require email confirmation by supervisors.

PROSPERO has temporarily suspended the automatic uploading of Cochrane protocols because of technical issues. We are working to resolve these and hope to resume the automatic registration of Cochrane protocols over the coming months.

NIHR Survey

We have been asked by NIHR to investigate if and how PROSPERO is helping to reduce unintended duplication of systematic reviews. This information will be used in support of our forthcoming application for renewed funding for PROSPERO.

Please help us by agreeing to participate in a short on-line survey that should take no more than 15 minutes to complete.

At this stage we just need your permission to send you a link to the survey in June.

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We will add your email address to a list that we will use to send you a link to the above survey. By agreeing to participate in the survey, you give your consent for us to do so. We will not hold or use this information for any other purpose and we will not share with any third party. We do not use profiling or automated decision-making processes.

Thank you for helping us to secure future funding for PROSPERO.

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